ΔV: Rings of Saturn

Eon Interstellar has issued another revision of the Model E operating specifications following reports from pilots testing the limits of its StarCAT stellarator and its signature Curie-point radiator. Company engineers confirmed that the iron-droplet cooling system performance was estimated with simulations rather than based on empirical data, and droplets driven past their practical temperature range simply boil away, limiting real-world cooling performance of the radiator. A separate controller defect caused new StarCAT units to respond as if already damaged and become inexplicably more stable as they deteriorated. Eon engineers reportedly identified both problems during pre-release testing, but updated hardware was approved for shipment before the revised control software and operating limits were finalized. The company has now distributed corrected stellarator firmware as an OTA update. OMS Impact Reports Faulty Enceladian maintenance crews have traced a series of inconsistent collision-damage reports to a defect in the Onboard Maintenance System telemetry interface. During heavy impacts, the OMS diagnostic bus could interpret repeated strain-sensor packets as separate measurements when synchronizing reports from different ship systems, effectively registering the same mechanical impulse more than once. The latest release of OMS software now timestamps and reconciles impact samples before forwarding them to damage-control systems. Enceladian shipyards will be installing this upgrade free of charge as part of the pre-flight inspection. Maintenance Logs • The mineral market will now react to your trades. Large-scale trading can significantly influence mineral prices, while market fluctuations remain sufficiently unpredictable to make speculation risky. Existing saves will account for previous trading activity. • Added a new in-universe advertisement. • Curie point radiators now have an upper operating temperature, limiting their cooling performance. Iron droplets can only get so hot before boiling off completely. • Adjusted EIME HUD temperature warnings to reflect the specific operating requirements of the StarCAT stellarator. • The low-risk path of the "corporate lockdown" salvage story now has a higher chance of success. • Equipment simulation for Obonto Microengineering Maintenance Drones will now feature simulated damage even when your ship is in pristine condition. • Sculpting lasers in the Atelier will now respect light detail settings, allowing the event to run on lower-end hardware with appropriately reduced graphical settings. • Updated hardware names for consistency and to better accommodate languages with longer terminology. • Nakamura product names now follow the company naming scheme across most translations. • Fixed the StarCAT stellarator damage model. Pristine stellarators will no longer behave as if badly damaged and improve as they accumulate damage. • Exploding fusion reactors will now stop emitting cooling droplets. • Rate of time passage will no longer affect the amount of damage you receive. Kinetic impacts during OMS operation or other time-rate changes will now inflict consistent damage. • Kinetic damage to your HUD now uses the same calculations as the rest of your ship systems. • The "missing child" storyline will now be marked as completed if the ship being searched for is destroyed during the salvage operation. • Voyager RSLS fabrication speed will no longer depend on your framerate. • Manual controls can now fire thrusters that have one of their damage values maxed out, as long as the thruster is still physically capable of producing thrust. • The MLF Autopilot Overlay will no longer disappear when your LIDAR returns more than 1024 contacts. • Fixed the geologist mineral map not updating properly during extended dives. • Added missing brightness tuning to the MAD Cernunnos II HUD. • Fixed some tunnel braces in the Atelier appearing below your salvage manipulator. • Fixed colliders on certain caved moonlets to better match their visual representation. • Fixed ice jets from damaged ringroids appearing below attached cargo containers but above your ship. • Fixed overheating Kitsune radiators becoming excessively bright. • Fixed a missing light occluder in a seasonal event. • German translations will no longer overflow the interface. • Adjusted control naming for gamepad control descriptions to match language commonly used on consoles. • Updated translations and credits.